Carol Moseley Braun Quotes

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias.

I'm always asked about how women get on in the boardroom and my answer is always, 'Never acknowledge that you are a woman. Your gender is not the point.'

I don't like tokenism. I don't like the idea that somebody should just appear at a press conference or in a media interview because they are a woman.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

This country can no longer afford to choose our leaders from a talent pool limited by sex, race, money, powerful fathers and paper degrees. It's time to take equal pride in breaking all the barriers.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

I want to do right, apart from my gender - I want to do right as a campaign manager.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.

I think the goal is parity: I try to be pro-woman without being anti-man, and I hope and wish that men could do the same in that when they look at the screenplay, they say, 'Wait, wait, wait - is my daughter represented here, is my wife represented here? Is my sister represented?'

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

In 'The Force Awakens,' women as well as men are in positions of authority. And you don't have to work hard to do that - it's not a statement, it's the world.

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

Obviously, there needs to be parity. I think as more women get to the top, we need to make sure that is the case. It is our responsibility.

The world belongs to those who want to make a difference, and gender is no barrier.

I don't see things in terms of gender.

The gender parity is something that has been organic to Eventbrite since we started building a team.

We still have a long way to go in such a misogynistic industry. But the discussions that we are having on social media and in politics, about the equal representation of women, which wasn't happening when I started out, is definitely changing things.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

Donald Trump thinks belittling women makes him bigger. We need to stand up and be clear that we don't want this, we need to celebrate diversity. America is great because America is good.

The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a yearless than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.

I have always said, in my own rise in the leadership, please don't ever ask anybody to vote for me because I'm a woman.